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Morse, Samuel F. B.

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  1. Nineteenth-century inventor of the telegraph and of Morse code. In 1844 he transmitted the first telegraphic message: “What hath God wrought!”

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Morse, Samuel F. B., 83; birthplace of, 264; student at Yale, 269; studies painting in Europe, 270; returns to America, 272; paints Lafayette, 272; invents the telegraph, 273.

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